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" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

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" If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. "

" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "

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" With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. "

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" A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice. "

" If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. "

" Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. "

" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "

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" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

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" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "

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" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

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" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "

" It's not the having, it's the getting. "

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" Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. "

" Suffering is one of life's great teachers. "

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" Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk? "

" A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. "

" Who learns most from a good book is the author. "

" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" No one wants advice - only corroboration. "

" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "

" If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. "

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "

" If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "